Women and Islam: Images and realities, Volumen1

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Haideh Moghissi
Taylor & Francis, 2005 - 419 páginas
This three-volume interdisciplinary collection is of use not only in Middle East studies but also in various other disciplines, including women's studies, political science, religion, cultural studies, sociology of gender and anthropology.The collection offers the most influential writings in the field by both renowned scholars as well as those by the new generation of scholars of Islam and gender and includes a wide variety of cases from Middle Eastern and Islamic societies. By including case-based articles, the collection highlights the clear links between concepts and theories and actual practices.Titles also available in this series include, Shamanism (March 2004, 3 volumes, 395) and the forthcoming titles Childhood (2005, 4 volumes, c.495), Gender (2005, 4 volumes, c.495) and Knowledge (2005, 4 volumes, c.495).
 

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General introduction
1
WOMENS MOVEMENTS IN MUSLIM
8
PART
10
thinking the difference 92
19
Feminismor the eternal masculinein the Arab world
25
1 PERCEIVING AND PRACTICING GENDERED VALUES
31
1 HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
37
Gender and citizenship in middle eastern states
52
Women the law and the family in Tunisia
244
new policies old realities
261
choices
275
The politics of gender and development in the Islamic republic
294
Some awkward questions on women and modernity in Turkey
295
a new look
309
Citizenship and gender in Algeria
313
2 POWER OF CULTURE FORCE OF RELIGION
325

The past and present of women in the Muslim world
53
the Islamic headscarf
71
PART 3
109
2 MUSLIM WOMEN AND COLONIAL IMAGINATION
111
from unveiling to hyperveiling
147
1 WOMEN THE QURAN AND PATRIARCHAL
165
Women and citizenship in the Quran
180
the challenges for Muslim women
195
The muted voices of women interpreters
209
2 LEGAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMENS STATUS
224
A study of girls lack of access to primary education in
330
women and democracy
339
women in Afghanistan
347
women in squatter areas of Amman
355
challenging womens oppression within
357
3 WOMEN AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEBATES
365
womens literature in Islamic cultures
373
aspirations
402
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